Mary Ann Malinchak Rishel

Fiction Writer

Doha
US
Email: 
rishel@ithaca.edu

Author's Bio

Mary Ann Malinchak Rishel is a Professor Emerita in writing at Ithaca College and former Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar. A fiction writer, she won the Best American Short Story Award for her story “Staus,” which was made into a film for PBS, and she also published numerous short stories and an academic book, Writing Humor: Creativity and the Comic Mind. Rishel died at the age of eighty-three in Ithaca, New York on July 25, 2023.

Publications & Prizes

Journals:
Cornell Review
,
Hudson Review
,
Red Cedar Review
,
Scrivener's Pen
,
Shankpainter
Prizes won: 

Best American Short Story Prize 1978

More Information

Born in: 
Port Vue, PA
Pennsylvania
Raised in: 
Port Vue, PA
Pennsylvania
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Last update: Oct 10, 2023